Southern Girls Challenge

Challenge #38 - So Distressed

2012-02-16T08:20:00.004+13:00

Before we get onto the next challenge, we girls here would like to say a sad goodbye to the very talented Shana. Shana has decided to step down, but she does assure us that she may pop in and play if time allows. Good luck Shana, all the best and thank you for being part of our little family.
So who is ready for another challenge here at Southern Girls? We have a nice easy theme this fortnight for you all to play along with.. we want you to get distressing! Weather you get out those distress inks and get dirty or just rough up the edges, its entirely up to you. We have so many inspiring entries each fortnight, we are excited to see you new projects... but first, lets see who our three fantastic sponsors are...

first up our awesome NZ - Australia sponsors is

Lily of the Valley

and now our two amazing International sponsor's

Kenny K

Little Claire Designs

And now for some inspiration from our always fabulous Design Team

Marie using Kenny K - Super Mom

Autumn

using Dandelion Clock from LOTV

Becca

Viv using Cutie Patooties from Little Claire Design

Tracy using Cutie Patooties from Little Claire Designs

Kazza

Nik using Kenny K - Ryder Cole

Shell

Sue - Image from Little Claire Designs called DoggiePlay

Shanna using Kenny K - Super Mom

Tanya

F YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY. If you live anywhere else just put your name. The following rules stay the same and we will now be deleting entries that do not follow these simple guidelines as is not fair on the people that do. We are not trying to be mean, just fair.....

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY

Winners - Magic & Mystery

2012-02-16T08:14:00.000+13:00

Sorry for this incredibly late post, argh!!!! It should have been up yesterday morning but I am totally losing track of time with Andrew away and coping with the four kids on my own.

Anyway here are this fortnights winners......

International

#10 Patty

New Zealand - Australia

#40 Debbie J

Congratulations ladies, please email tracy{dot}rich{@}orcon{dot}net{dot}nz to claim your prize and remember to grab your winners badge from the sidebar.

Our top 5 are.......

Thanks to everyone for joining in. Top 5 please grab your badge from the sidebar, everyone else we would love for you to take a I Play At SGC badge to display on your blog.

Challenge #37 - Magic & Mystery

2012-02-02T08:23:00.000+13:00

And another fortnight has flown by and our 3rd challenge of 2012 is now underway. Thanks to those of you that played along with our White on White challenge, the entries were FANTASTIC.

This challenge we want to see magic and mystery on your projects, fairies, unicorns, elves etc.... you get the picture.

Our fabulous sponsors are.......

International

New Zealand / Australia

And our awesome DT Projects...........

Kirsten

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

If you do not have a blog you can email us your project photos HERE

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

Challenge #36 - Winners

2012-02-01T11:42:00.003+13:00

Time for our winners for our White on White Challenge.......

NZ _ AUSTRALIA Winners

#28 - Linda V

# 4 Kirsty NZ

INTERNATIONAL

#18 - Mrs A

Winners please email tracy(dot)rich(at)orcon(dot)net(dot)nz to find out how to claim your prize

And our Top 5
#2 Jess Martin

#7 Pamela

#23 Kim D

#26 Karen W

#34 Chizette

Congratulations ladies!!!!! Remember to grab your top 5 badge from the sidebar :)

We will be back tomorrow with another challenge, so be sure to drop by.

Challenge #36 - White on White!

2012-01-19T08:36:00.000+13:00

Well we are already onto the second challenge in 2012... I have a feeling this year is going to go as fast as the last! It was great to see you all join us for our first challenge of the year last fortnight, there was certainly a lot of sparkle to be seen!

This weeks challenge is "White on White", lets see your imagination go wild.. break out the dies and embossing folders to add texture to your white on white cards / SB layout! we can't wait to see what you do ... but first, lets see who our.. not two but three fantastic sponsors are...

first up our awesome NZ - Australia sponsors is

Tickled Pink

and

Artful Crafts

and now our amazing International sponsor

Meljen

And now for some inspiration from our always fabulous Design Team

Bettina

Sue

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY

Challenge #35 Show Us Your Sparkle - WINNERS

2012-01-18T08:14:00.003+13:00

Thanks everyone for joining us for our "Show us your Sparkle", it never ceases to astound me how much talent there is in the papercrafting world. Every week you make it hard to pick a top 5, thank goodness the winners are random :)

So now onto our winners........

Australia - New Zealand Winners

Ange Hincks - Email Entry

Leesa #94

International Winner

#41 Jolanda

Winners please email tracy.rich at orcon dot net dot nz for information on how to claim your prize and don't forget to get a winners badge from the sidebar to showoff on your blog.

Top 5.......

Grab your top 5 badge from the sidebar and congratulations.

Tune back in tomorrow for our new challenge!

Show Us Your Sparkle Email Entry

2012-01-14T09:52:00.000+13:00

This awesome bright layout was entered by Ange Hincks from Palmerston North, New Zealand. Love the photo cluster and lovely bright colours!!!!!

Thanks loads for entering Ange.

Remember if you don't have a blog you can enter by emailing us a picture of your project, the email address is in the sidebar.

Challenge #35 - Show Us Your SPARKLE

2012-01-05T10:22:00.000+13:00

Happy 2012 Everyone!!!!!!! Here we are back for another year with sparkling new sponsors, a sparkling new look and our Sparklingly talented design team. And of course our very wonderful followers. We hope you all had Wonderful Christmases and totally Outstanding New Years.

So welcome to our first challenge for the New Year "SHOW US YOUR SPARKLE", to celebrate the shiny newness of the New Year we would love to see anything sparkly on your projects, don't forget we love seeing ATC's, Layouts and off the page projects too. Anything papercrafty goes around here!

And our very awesome sponsors for our first challenge of the year are.......

New Zealand - Australia

Pink Gem Designs

Delicious Doodles

International

Little Claire

And now for our Design Team Inspiration.........

Kim

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

If you do not have a blog you can email us your project photos HERE

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

Welcome 2012!!!!!!

2012-01-02T17:44:00.002+13:00

Hope all of you lovely followers had a fabulous Christmas and New Year.

Hope you like our fresh new look here at SGC, we would love your feedback so let us know what you think in the comments.

Be sure to check in on Thursday for our very first challenge of 2012.

Let's Celebrate WINNERS plus some important info!!!

2011-12-28T10:26:00.000+13:00

Hi everyone, Lou here with the winners for challenge 34. Before I get onto that though I need to let you know a couple of things........

THIS BLOG WILL BE CLOSED FOR MAINTENANCE FROM SATURDAY 31ST DEC TO WEDNESDAY 4TH JANUARY.

We will be back though ready for 2012.

And also.....

HAPPY NEW YEAR XOX

Now onto our winners.

Vicki AUS

The Crafty Den

Winners email Tracy to collect prize info :)

And our Top 5

Congrats ladies!!!!!!!! Collect your winners badge from the sidebar.

Happy Holidays to our faithful followers..........

2011-12-18T17:29:00.000+13:00

Challenge 34 - Let's Celebrate

2011-12-15T10:00:00.001+13:00

Wow, can you believe its the last challenge for the year? It was wonderful to see you all join in for the ribbon madness challenge last fortnight, such inspiration for the DT to look at!

As this is the last challenge of the year, Southern Girls are taking a little break over the Christmas period. But never fear.. myself and Lou will be still busy behind the scenes, setting everything up for the coming year to make it bigger and better, so we hope you will be back to join us.

First challenge next year for 2012 will be 5th Jan, so mark that in your calendar's girls! Right onto final 2011 challenge

This weeks challenge is "Lets Celebrate", we wanted to leave this pretty open to your interpretation, it could be anything from a baby project, birthday, Christmas... and the list could go on... but first, why don't we see who our fantastic sponsors are...

First up our awesome NZ - Australia sponsors is

Di Digi Stamps

and now our amazing International sponsor

Stitchy Bear

And now for some inspiration from our always fabulous Design Team

Autumn

Bettina

Sue

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY

Challenge #33 - Ribbon Madness WINNERS!!!!!!!

2011-12-14T12:45:00.000+13:00

Another fabulous fortnight of entries and yet again a tough decision for top 5. Thanks so much to everyone that played along with us. We will be back tomorrow with our last challenge of the year, be sure to check it out as Trace may have a few hints of things to come.........

Now onto our winners......

Our New Zealand & Australia Sponsors.....

The winner of the Tickled Pink Stamps prize is.........

#94 Sue S

The Winner of the Joanna Sheen Voucher is........

#76 Kelly (AUS)

Our International Sponsor

The winner of the prize from Stamp Fairy is..........

#39 Hazel

Congratulations ladies, don't forget to grab your Winners badge from the sidebar and email tracy.richorconnetnz to claim your prizes.

The Top 5 in no particular order are......

And congrats to you all, be suure to check out their fantabulous projects. Ladies grab your Top 5 blonkie from the sidebar.

Challenge #33 - Ribbon Madness!!!!!!!

2011-12-01T08:56:00.001+13:00

Thanks so much to those of you that joined us for our last challenge, hope you enjoyed the game of bingo. The projects were all lovely and we really appreciate that some of you play along with us almost every challenge, all of you are fabulous!

This weeks challenge is a bit of RIBBON MADNESS, we want to see ribbon on your projects. Anyhow, anyway as long as you have ribbon we want to see it.

Three Fantastic sponsor for this challenge,

first up our 2 awesome NZ - Australia sponsors, these prizes are strictly only available to entries from Australia or New Zealand, so if you are from one of these 2 countries be sure to read the rules at the bottom of this post on how to link up your project so you will go in the correct draw.

And our lovely international sponsor.........

And of course our gorgeous DT samples........

Amber

Bekki

Bettina L

Deeanna

Julie

Kim

Kirsten

Norine

Sue

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY

Winners Challenge 32 - Embellishment Bingo

2011-11-30T09:17:00.000+13:00

Thanks to everyone that joined us for our Embellishment Bingo. Every week you crafters amaze us with your gorgeous projects!!! THANK YOU!

Our winners this week are...........

#71 Maxine D NZ

#65 Jenny H

Winners please email HERE

and our Top 5 are.....

#10 Christine (Blankiefinder)

Congratulations ladies grab your badge from the sidebar.

Hope you will all come back tomorrow morning for a brand new challenge!!!!!!

Lou, Trace and the DT Lovelies

Challenge 32 - Embellishment Bingo

2011-11-17T10:00:00.001+13:00

Welcome back! Once again, we are amazed by all the entries and support from fellow crafters.

For today's challenge, we want to see you create a project using this fantastic bingo board that our very own Lou has created.

The Australia and NZ Sponsor for this challenge is.........

And the International Sponsor is............

The Paper Shelter

And now for some inspiration from our always fabulous Design Team

Autumn

Bettina

Nik

Sue

Kellie

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY

Winners & Top 5 - Can you hear the music

2011-11-16T08:43:00.004+13:00

I am so unorganised at the moment so this will be a very quick post.. after all... don't we all want to know who the lucky winners are??

Our winners are............

Joanna Sheen prize - Lowri McNabb

Meljen Design prize - Donna O

and our international winner....

International Winner - Kevin

Ladies and Gent please email HERE to claim your prizes

And now our Top 5 for this challenge in no particular order.......

23. Carole of Braum
31. Karina aka Creawitch
60. Tracy MacDonald
66. Mazz
82. Delphine

78. Christian

Be sure to grab your badge from the sidebar :)

Hope we will see you back here tomorrow for our new challenge.... and fantastic sponsors.

Hugs

Trace, Lou and DT Lovlies

Challenge #31 - Can You Hear The Music?????

2011-11-03T12:46:00.002+13:00

Another fortnight (almost) of fantastic entries from all of you that played along with our spots and stripes challenge, wow you guys rock!!! This challenge we want to see your projects that are inspired by a song. It is actually quite addictive once you start as you will see by the fact a couple of the DT did a couple of projects. This week we welcome quite a few newbies to my (Louise) team as I had a bit of a mass exodus and lost lots of my original lovelies, but I do have a bunch of new talented ladies so chin up aye. If you can be sure to drop by the DT blogs (the links are on the left hand side bar "TEAM LOU") and leave them some love on their blogs.

Righty, moving along to this weeks sponsors we have 2 prizes available this challenge for a couple of lucky NZ or Aussie entries, you could win a sweet prize from one of the following.......

NZ - AUSTRALIA SPONSORS

Or if you are from anywhere other than Australasia you could win a fabulous prize from............

And now onto our DT samples.......

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY. If you live anywhere else just put your name. The following rules stay the same and we will now be deleting entries that do not follow these simple guidelines as is not fair on the people that do. We are not trying to be mean, just fair.....

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY.

SPOTS & STRIPES CHALLENGE - Winners and Top 5

2011-11-02T09:12:00.003+13:00

Firstly a huge thank you to everyone that entered our Spots & Stripes Challenge, it was nice to see a few more Aussies and NZers enter this one. Also Thanks to our fantastic sponsors!!!

Our winners are............

New Zealand - Australia winner

Email Entry - Christine Bonifacio NZ

International Winner

Wendy Bickford

Ladies please email HERE to claim your prizes

And now our Top 5 for this challenge in no particular order.......

2 coops

15 dj 1952

50 Jo Daives

41 jodi - Kaboo Designs

77 Kay O Conner

Be sure to grab your badge from the sidebar :)

Hope we will see you back here tomorrow for our new challenge.... It's a really fun one that the DT really enjoyed. Also tomorrows reveal will be the first for the New DT Lovelies on Lou's Team so be sure to stop by and check them out :)

An Email Entry from Christine Bonifacio

2011-10-28T10:53:00.000+13:00

This gorgeous card was entered by the very talented Christine Bonifacio from New Zealand. Christine doesn't have a blog but she is a member of the ARTFULL CRAFTS design team so you can find some of her layout and cards on the ARTFULL CRAFTS BLOG.

Thanks loads for entering Christine :)

Challenge 30 - Stripes and Polka Dots

2011-10-20T09:00:00.002+13:00

Hi Everyone. Thanks as always to those of you who took part in our 'Slugs and Snails' challenge - clearly male cards aren't as unpopular as we're led to believe cos we had plenty of wonderful entries.....but then our entrants are a talented bunch!!

For today's challenge, we want to see your project incorporating 'Stripes and Polka Dots'. Can't wait to see what you come up with!!

The Australia and NZ Sponsor for this challenge is.........

And the International Sponsor is............

And now for some inspiration from our always fabulous Design Team

Nik

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY.

Winners for Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dogs Tails.........

2011-10-19T16:37:00.000+13:00

Time for this weeks winners!!!!!!!!!!

Winner of our Aus/NZ Prizes are ...........

#51 Xox Tanya

#41 Brenda NZ

International...........

#27 Cheri

Winners please email us using our email link in the sidebar.

And our Top 5 in no particular order............

Top 5
#62 Sarah T
#37 Carissa
#52 Janette G
#17 Lou Mac
#32 LaDiva

Please grab the badge from our sidebar :)

Happy Hellos to the new and Sad Goodbyes to the old (not literally)

2011-10-12T11:34:00.001+13:00

FOR OUR CURRENT CHALLENGE SEE HERE

As you are probably aware if you are regulars here at SGC we recently had a DT call, which we decided to have over a couple of weeks as a certain little baby wasn't due until the end of the month and his Mum ALWAYS goes overdue..... well he showed up early and put things into a bit of a tailspin. But we have things well in control now and we are well ready to make the DT announcements, so here we go...............

It is with heavy hearts we say goodbye to some lovely ladies who have been with us from start of this adventure,

ALICIA
KAREN
SUE

So it is a very sad goodbye to these mainstays from the original DT here SGC, BUT also we are very excited because we are saying hello to a bunch of talented new comers to our team, so here is a huge SGC welcome to........

AMBER
BEKKI
BETTINA L
DEEANNA
KELLIE
KIM
NORINE
REBECCA
SHANNA
SHELL
SUE N
SUE U
TANYA

As you can probably tell we have also decided to expand the team a bit so you will have loads more luscious DT samples to look at on challenge days. Thank you to EVERYONE who took the time to apply, you all made it a really difficult decision!

And now just because I can't resist showing off and I co own this challenge blog, here is the totally gorgeous reason this post is late...........

Ok so that is a wrap.........

Thanks to you all for being so awesome......

Lou, Trace & The DT Lovelies

Challenge 29 - Slugs and Snails and Puppydog's Tails......

2011-10-06T09:00:00.001+13:00

Hi there, everyone! Huge thanks to all of you that entered our last 'Anything Goes' challenge - and to those of you that have entered our DT call. It's a very exciting time here at Southern Girls - between looking for some new 'faces' and with our Lou being in labour, as we speak!! Despite all that, the 'show must go on' and so the challenge this time is to create a project for the boys or men in your lives!

EDITED: Update..... Lou has had a beautiful baby boy! Mother and babe doing well.

We've got fabulous sponsors, as usual!

Australia and NZ Sponsors

Lili of the Valley strives to produce excellent quality products with beautiful designs that enable you to make lovely cards every time, simply and easily. They also pride themselves on taking care with everything they do to make sure you receive great products, at a good price and as quickly as possible.

Joanna has been involved in the craft world since 1979. She has written over 30 books on cookery, herbs, stencilling, crafts and flowers during the past 20 years and is now best known for her work on TV with her craft CDs, cardmaking and pressed flowercraft programmes. She also has a very successful online retail business.

International Sponsor

Heather Ellis - Heather is a very talented UK based writed and illustrator who has had many children's books published and has designed some very cute character images for MFT, as well as images that retail under her own name.

And here's some inspiration from our wonderful DT Ladies!

Alicia

Julie

Karen

Louise

Sue

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY.

Only 5 hours until DT call finishes

2011-10-05T19:17:00.002+13:00

Just a reminder.... only 5 hours to go until DT call ends.

We have a heap of very talented card makers / scrapbookers to look at already so far.... Just letting you all know that there will be a delay of a few days before we send out an email to successful applicants.... maybe even up to a week........ why.... I hear you ask??????? LOU is in labour as I type this..... yep she has done a runner on me and the DT lovelies to have her baby (zippy as he/she is known to us!!)

Thank you to the many of you that have applied... you sure aren't making our life any easier!!

Hugs

Tracy

Winners of our Anything Goes Challenge

2011-10-05T11:08:00.001+13:00

Hi Ladies,

Thanks for entering our "Anything Goes" Challenge.

We were blown away with your amazing creations!!! Our DT were so overwhelmed by the number of entrants and the quality of projects so this week we have picked a random Top #5

Our Prize winners this week are:

International Winner for our Robyn's Fetish Prize is:

# 61 Jackie R

NZ/Aussie Winner for our Paper Pretties Prize is:

# 215 Shannah

Congratulations, you can contact us from the side bar for your prizes!!

Onto the top 5..... and in no particular order.....

#133 - Jovita

#36 - Bella
#83 - Zora

#226 - Kelly

#327 - Heidi

Congratulations, please grab our "top 5" badge from the side bar and wear it with pride on your blogs.

We would love to see you all back again tomorrow for our brand new challenge and fabby new sponsors.

Alicia, on behalf of:

Lou, Trace and DT lovelies

SOUTHERN GIRLS ARE HUNTING...... FOR A FEW NEW DT MEMBERS!

2011-09-26T21:20:00.002+13:00

For our Current Challenge click HERE

It has been a fantastic year for us here at Southern Girls Challenge and we are ready for another one!
We are on the hunt for a few more DT Members to join our happy little group. If you think you may be interested, check out the following info..........

We are an open blog so any type of paper crafters can apply.

We are a fortnightly challenge and the team is split into 2 groups so you are only required to do 1 project per month.

We have lots of fabulous sponsors and sometimes they give us images to work with (YAY) you are in no way obligated to use these images but it is cool if you do :)

We are pretty chatty, about loads of stuff not just crafting, so be prepared to work those fingers in our group message center.

You will need a blog.

If this sounds like a DT that may appeal to you please contact Lou & Trace at THIS EMAIL ADDRESS LINK!!!!!! with an email telling us a little about yourself, any current (if any) DTs you are on, fav techniques/ syles that sort of thing and attach your fave 3 projects for us to see and also add a link to your blog please.

We are looking forward to perusing the hundreds of applicants emails and eagerly await all your lovely blog links :)

Call closes 5th October 2011, we know it is pretty quick but we want to be organised before Lou has her baby due in October.

Lou & Trace

Challenge 28 - Anything Goes!

2011-09-22T09:25:00.002+12:00

Hello and Welcome to the newest challenge here at Southern Girls and after the huge event that was our Birthday Blog Hop, we thought we'd make it a nice, easy one for everyone - 'Anything Goes'!! (But do please remember our rule of only 1 entry per person!!)
Talking of our 'Hop', we'd like to say a massive thank you to each and every one of you who hopped along with us and took part. Without you, it wouldn't have been the success that it was! And keep an eye out over the next day or so, as each member of the DT will be posting their prize winner on their own blogs (if they haven't done already). And I'm sure there'll be a master list posted on here once they've all been revealed!

We've got some great sponsors as usual for this challenge

Australia and NZ Sponsor

Paper Pretties

International Sponsor

Robyn's Fetish

And here's some inspiration for you from our fabulous Design Team:

Nik (who's been very busy!)

Viv

Sue (2 from Sue!)

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Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY.

Update for Lots of Layers Bloghop..............

2011-09-15T10:01:00.000+12:00

There seems to be some confusion over the rules this challenge for the bloghop. If you have not commented on the DT Blogs you will not be eligible to win a prize as the prizes from the sponsors are being drawn individually by each DT for someone that has commented on hers and the other DT blogs. If you have linked to the link tool and not commented on any of the blogs it would be a good idea to whip round the DT blogs and leave some love.

There have been a few issues with leaving comments on a couple of the blogs by some people, if this happens to you please email us using the email us link on the sidebar and you will still be eligible in the prize draws.

Thanks for you co-operation

Welcome to our BLOG HOP!!!!!

2011-09-08T08:00:00.004+12:00

Can you believe we are a year old?, and what a fantastic year it has been with the support from all our wonderful sponsors and of course the wonderful crafters that enter our challenges, also to be on the best Design Team anyone could wish for. In celebration of this, we have an amazing bloghop with some of our fantastic regular sponsors giving away fabulous prizes.

All the DT Lovelies have a prize from one of our wonderful sponsors available by leaving some love on their blogs. Each lovely will be doing a seperate draw so be sure to visit them all.

And here is a list of sponsors and the prizes...........

Make It Crafty are giving one lucky winner a $15 AUS Gift Voucher

One lucky winner will win KaiserCraft "Miss Nellie" product

One winner will win 4 Tickled Pink Digi Images

One person will recieve a 10 pound gift Voucher

one winner will get a 10 pound gift voucher and the new "zip & stitch " stamp from the new haberdashery collection

One person will win 1 paper pack and 5 digi stamps

One winner will get 2 Emerald Faerie Digis

One winner will recieve 3 digi images

One winner will get a $15US Gift Voucher for the store.

a pack of xpress A5 copic blending paper, a copy of Copicendium and a "Some Odd Girl" stamp

One winner will get 6 Digi Images

One winner will receive 5 digital images

An assortment of papercraft products.

See told you there were AWESOME prizes to be won!

So, to recap.... the rules are simple, make sure you make a project that features lots of layers or a birthday theme and enter on Southern Girls Challenges, also leave each DT Lovely a comment, and on the 20th of September each DT Lovely will draw a random name, that will be a winner of the sponsor that they are showcasing.

Here is the DT bloglist in order for the hop........

Southern Girls (You are here!!!!!)
Julie
Kazza
Bettina
Viv
Nik
Marie
Lou
Alicia
Autumn
Tracy
Kirsten
Karen
Sue

and back to here Southern Girls to link up your project

Now head on over to Julie to get started and have fun......

There seems to be some confusion over the rules this challenge for the bloghop. If you have not commented on the DT Blogs you will not be eligible to win a prize as the prizes from the sponsors are being drawn individually by each DT for someone that has commented on hers and the other DT blogs. If you have linked to the link tool and not commented on any of the blogs it would be a good idea to whip round the DT blogs and leave some love.

There have been a few issues with leaving comments on a couple of the blogs by some people, if this happens to you please email us using the email us link on the sidebar and you will still be eligible in the prize draws.

Thanks for you co-operation

Winners of our "Through the Decades" Challenge

2011-09-07T10:38:00.001+12:00

Hi Ladies,

Thanks for entering our "Through the Decades" Challenge.

Once again there was some amazing creations!!

Our Prize winners this week are:

International Winner for our Kenny K Prize is:

# 13 Karen Seifert

NZ/Aussie Winner for our Tickled Pink Prize is:

# 10 Kay O'Connor

Congratulations, you can contact us from the side bar for your prizes!!

Onto the top 3..... and in no particular order.....

#14 - Gro Tjeltveit

#1 - Tip Top
#2 - Shelby G

Congratulations, please grab our "top 3" badge from the side bar and wear it with pride on your blogs.

We would love to see you all back again tomorrow for our brand new challenge and fabby new sponsors.

Alicia, on behalf of:

Lou, Trace and DT lovelies

Challenge 26 - Through the Decades

2011-08-25T08:12:00.000+12:00

It's time for a new challenge here at Southern Girls!! But first, let me start by thanking all of you who took the time to play along with our 'Black and White with a POP challenge' - we had some great entries (don't we always?!?!)
The challenge starting today is to create a card/layout/project following the theme 'Decades' - whichever decade you choose, or how you interpret it, is down to you!! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

We've got two great sponsors (who also happen to do some ideal images that fit in with the theme just perfectly - have a look at the DT designs!)...........

Australia and NZ Sponsors

Tickled Pink Stamps has a range of stamps from companies such as CC Designs, Magnolia, Kraftin' Kimmie and more. Kellie is busy gathering new stock for the new year and has a great range of paper pads and MORE coming. Tickled Pink Stamps is known for their very own range of stamps Lil Lolita's which are now joined by Lil Lads. And the cute little gal Cherrie. Tickled Pink Stamps has a range of sentiments and dies to come in the New Year you wont want to miss!

International Sponsor

Kenny K - Digi and rubber stamps from KennyK are a fun and edgy way to add the perfect dose of attitude and style to all of your creations!

And here are the fabulous examples from our wonderful Design Team........

Alicia (80s)

Julie (60s)

Karen (60s)

Kirsten (50s)

Sue (70s)

Viv (50s)

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

Winners Post - Black, White and a POP of Colour Challenge

2011-08-24T18:39:00.006+12:00

Hi Ladies,

Thanks for entering our Winter Photo Inspiration Challenge. Once again there was some amazing creations!!

Our Prize winners this week are:

International Winner for our Sassy Studio Designs Prize is:

#44 Gale

NZ/Aussie Winner for our Pink Cat Sudio Prize is:

#46 Jenny Hurley (AUS)

NZ/Aussie Winner for Joanna Sheen

#34 Tania - AUS

Congratulations, you can contact us from the side bar for your prizes!!

Onto the top 3..... and in no particular order.....

#13 Brenda
#27 Sarah T
#45 Tip Top

Congratulations, please grab our "top 3" badge from the side bar and wear it with pride on your blogs.

We would love to see you all back again tomorrow for our brand new challenge and fabby new sponsors.

Alicia, on behalf of:
Lou, Trace and DT lovelies

Challenge 25 - Black & White with a POP!

2011-08-11T14:26:00.002+12:00

Wow, MISSION!!!!! I have had so many issues getting this post up today, unbelievable. Anyway we are there now, Hopefully.

This challenge we want to see black and white projects with a POP of one colour.

Easy Peasy!!!

This challenges sponsors........

International Sponsor

Sassy Studio Designs are definitely just that sassy, if you are a woman who knows what you want and wants what you love, be sure to check out the digital images available from Sassy Studio.

Australia & NZ Sponsors

Pink Cat Studio is all about offering fun and whimsical stamps to inspire your creativity. They have a huge selection of super cute digi and rubber stamps to choose from and they add more each week. Owner and artist Melissa started PCS in 2005 and over the years nothing has excited and inspired her more than to see your creations with her stamps. Melissa’s goal is to continue to delight & surprise you with her designs. Stop by the studio today and get in on the fun!

Come and join us on our website at; www.joannasheen.com or www.joannasheen.co.uk
For postage and packing free worldwide on an exciting array of craft suppliesAnd now onto the Design Teams Samples.............

Alicia

Autumn

Bettina

Julie

Kazza

Louise

Nik

Trace

Viv

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

Challenge 24 - "Photo Inspiration" Winners and Top 3

2011-08-10T10:58:00.003+12:00

Hi Ladies,

What a wonderful response we had to our Winter Photo Inspiration Challenge.I personally loved hopping around all your blogs and checking out your amazing creations.

Our Prize winners this week are:

International Winner for our Meljen's Designs Prize is:

#13 Deonna B

NZ/Aussie Winner for our Scrap Box Prize is:

#6 Mazz

Congratulations, you can contact us from the side bar for your prizes!!

Onto the top 3..... and in no particular order.....

#1 Maxine D

#12 Libeeti

#20 Grace N

Congratulations, please grab our "top 3" badge from the side bar and wear it with pride on your blogs.
We would love to see you all back again tomorrow for our brand new challenge and fabby new sponsors.

Alicia, on behalf of:

Lou, Trace and DT lovelies

Challenge 24 - Photo Inspiration

2011-07-28T08:00:00.000+12:00

Something a bit different here at SGC this challenge, a photo inspiration. Since it is the middle of Winter and absolutely freezing here at the moment I thought this photo was very appropriate....

I found it at http://www.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/nature/a-frosty-tree-a-frosty-day-in-central-otago-new-zealand_1440x1080_42327.htm so it is a wintery scene taken in Otago, NZ.

We have 2 fabby sponsors for this challenge.

International Sponsor....

Meljen's Designs is a collection of digital stamps (and more) designed by Melissa Jenkins. It features critters, children, mice, teddy bears and all sorts of fun cuteness. Available from WHIMSY STAMPS , Meljens also have a blog wiith lots of fun challenges and every Monday there is a FREE Image!!!!! Make sure and go check it out as there are also lots of gorgeous creations by the Meljens DT and they showcase Melissa's fantastic new releases as well.

This challenge out DT were lucky enough to be able to use a selection of totally sweet Meljens Images on our projects.

New Zealand - Australia Sponsor

Looking for something special to enhance your scrapbook pages, off the page projects or cardmaking. We hope you find it here. If you are unable to locate what you are looking for email fiona@scrapboxnz.com and we will do our best to source your product for you. Enjoy having a look around the shop and pop over to the blog. This is where you can be kept in touch with new products that are arriving and see wonderful layouts and off the page projects done with the lastest items. Have a go at the fortnightly challenges - always a $20 voucher up for graps. Check out the WEBSITE & BLOG

And now here are this fortnights DT creations........
ALICIA

JULIE

KIRSTEN

KAREN

LOUISE

SUE

Thanks for popping by and we are looking forward to seeing what you create

Lou, Trace & the DT Lovelies xox

Challenge 23 Winners and top 5

2011-07-27T07:27:00.001+12:00

Hiho, well this fortnight has totally snuck up on me, and it wasn't until I came home from work and read my emails from the SG yahoo site that I had a sinking feeling that I hadn't prepared the winners post!!!!!... SO without further ado.... here are the 3 winners

Stitchy Bear - #85 Diane Ahlers

Paper Shelter - #133 Bron

Joanna Sheen - #16 Sherryn

Well done ladies, you can contact us from the side bar for your prizes.

Onto the top 5..... and in no particular order.....

#121 Shari

#93 Amelia

#19 Nadell

#61 Leah Ann Gast

#140 Margreet

Congrats ladies. Grab our "top 5" badge from the side bar and wear it with pride on your blogs.

Would love to see you all back again tomorrow for our brand new challenge and fabby new sponsors.

Lou, Trace and DT lovelies

Challenge #23 - Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!

2011-07-14T08:04:00.002+12:00

Welcome to another challenge here at Southern Girls!!!! We are stoked you came along and had a look and hopefully you will play along. This week we want to see projects with a birthday theme. As always our challenge is open to all types of papercraft, scrapbooking, ATCs, cards, off the page..... if you make it with paper, we want to see it. We had an awesome number of entries last week, I know we can do better though..... particularly you New Zealanders and Australians! Every week we get a huge number of international entries and not really very many of you Southern Hemisphere papercrafters. We know you are out there..... hmmmmm maybe you just don't like winning stuff? So this week we challenge you to enter! You have to be in to win and if you haven't got a link there on the link thing we can't visit you can we? No Blog? No Worries...... Just email us a pic of your project and we will post a picture on our blog and you will go in the draw as well, what a deal! (hmmmmm can you tell I used to be in sales?lol)
So get inking, glueing, painting.... whatever it is that gets your creative juices flowing and join in!

International Sponsor

Here is a few words from Stitchy......

Hi my name is Stitchy and I am Co-Owner of Stitchy Bear Stamps...we started this store April 1st, No Fooling haha..I live in upstate New York with my husband and two TEENAGE adults haha, I do say that loosely as they think they run the show here, NOT...

I been creating stamps for a little less than a year now and I am totally addicted to the craft..I started about 4 years ago making digital scraps and I knew there was much more out there, so a friend of mine introduced me to digital stamps...and the rest they say is history...I look forward to seeing all the beautiful creations come through...good luck everyone..stitchy xoxox"

NZ - Australia Sponsors

The Paper Shelter is a digital stamp company with gorgeous images. The images come in both line and coloured. If you are looking for fun, cute and lovely digi stamps for your paper-crafting or web design projects, The Paper Shelter is your one-stop boutique!
This growing catalog of high-quality digi stamps with many different kind of options offers a multitude of themes such as everyday items, holidays, special occasions, children, adorable characters and creatures. Stamps are available in standard black and white line art, as well as in pre-colored format.
Images are wonderful for coloring and make perfect additions to greeting cards and scrapbook albums.

Come and join us on our website at; www.joannasheen.com or www.joannasheen.co.uk
For postage and packing free worldwide on an exciting array of craft supplies

And now onto the Design Teams Samples.............

Viv
Trace

Sue

Marie

Lou

Kazza

Julie

Autumn
Alicia

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY. If you live anywhere else just put your name. The following rules stay the same and we will now be deleting entries that do not follow these simple guidelines as is not fair on the people that do. We are not trying to be mean, just fair.....

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

Winners and top 5

2011-07-13T06:49:00.003+12:00

Hello, what another great round of lovely projects to look at. Thanks to you all for joining in.

Onto the winners this fortnight...

International - Heather Ellis digis - #29 Ellie

NZ/Aus - Mad 4 Markers - #73 Ashlee

Congrats ladies, you can email us by clicking on the "Email Us" button on the left hand side bar.

Onto the extremely hard decision on the top 5....

#86 - Chris V

#64 - Denise P

#11 - Anette

#46 - Katie Tate

#71 - Sue

Well done ladies, such wonderful projects to look at. You can grab your blinkie from the right hand side.... please join us again tomorrow for a brand new challenge and more wonderful sponsors.

Bring out your Inner Child!!!!!!!

2011-06-30T08:51:00.016+12:00

Time for another challenge here at SGC, don't the weeks just fly by.

This week we want to see your projects featuring a "Childhood Memories" theme.
We have 2 sweet sponsors this challenge, thank you very much to Heather and Sammi for their support. Make sure and go and check out their websites and all the goodies they have for sale.

International Sponsor

Heather Ellis is an illustrator from England and she has the very sweet "Pure Innocence" images availble in her Web Shop and in her ETSY store. Easy to colour and totally cute, if you love images of children you will love these!

NZ - AUS Sponsor

Mad for Markers is an Australian based webstore selling Copic Markers in Australia and New Zealand. We are also happy to ship the wonderful Xpress GraphX blending Card overseas if people are interested. We LOVE Copic markers and want to help others to buy them and use them well :D

And now onto our Design Team Projects......

Alicia

Deb

Julie

Kirsten

Karen
Louise - cover of Mini Album

Louise - sample of inner pages
Sue

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY. If you live anywhere else just put your name. The following rules stay the same and we will now be deleting entries that do not follow these simple guidelines as is not fair on the people that do. We are not trying to be mean, just fair.....

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

Winners and Top 5 - Anything Goes

2011-06-29T08:06:00.003+12:00

A hugely overwhelming amount of entries in the challenge this time round. Thanks everyone for participating!!!!

Firstly our Winners......

International Winner - Stamp Fairy Voucher - #311 LIV

NZ - AUS Winner - Simply Betty Voucher - #244 Julie Price

Please email us HERE

Now our Top 5....

#386 - Tanya R

#212 - Janiel

#132 - Susan Hogan AUS

#92 - Karita

#12 - Coops

Make sure and grab the Top 5 badge from the sidebar ladies.

Tune in tomorrow for our next challenge and don't forget to like us on FACEBOOK so you can check all our updates while you are playing with your profile :)

Apology from The Southern Girls Design Team.....

2011-06-28T11:24:00.002+12:00

A huge thankyou to all our entries in our Anything Goes Challenge, we were really overwhelmed with the amount of entries and the high stamdard of all the entries. Unfortunately due to a huge range of reasons including computer problems, time restrictions and being away on holiday to name a few alot of the entries did not get commented on. We are TRULY sorry to anyone who was forgotten but rest assured we think you are all fabulous and we appreciate you taking the time to play along with us.

Challenge 21 - Anything goes

2011-06-16T10:41:00.002+12:00

Welcome back to another fantastic challenge at Southern Girls, and it couldn't get any easier than this one, so we are expecting a lot of entries! All you have to do is create a card, SB page OTP project... well ... anything you like and you could be one of the lucky ones to win one of these fabby prizes.....

And here they are....we have another 2 awesome sponsors this week too, please welcome.........

creativity.

Patricia
Viv

Bettina

Julie

Alicia

Tracy

Kirsten

Lou

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY. If you live anywhere else just put your name. The following rules stay the same and we will now be deleting entries that do not follow these simple guidelines as is not fair on the people that do. We are not trying to be mean, just fair.....

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!
Hello and welcome to my world of fun, funky, and unique! I have been paper crafting for over 12 years now! I love scrapbooking, and love stamping just the same!

Please excuse us as we Beautify our site! In the meantime, shopping is still open and you are still welcome to browse our products! Please enjoy!

Simply B Stamps

So here to show you their amazing talent is...

Kazza

International Sponsor

If you are searching for cute, whimsy digistamps - you have come to the right place...The Stamp Fairy! Everything you can find on this site has been hand - and mousemade with love and lots of

Winners and top 5

2011-06-15T04:37:00.003+12:00

Hello, just a quick post today to let you know who the lucky winners are and the amazing top 5. Poor Lou's computer has packed a sad so I will also be doing tomorrows new challenge and letting you know who the lovely sponsors are... right onto the winners.

The Beary Scrap - Suzi

Joanna Sheen - Tanya Watson

Lilly of the Valley - Stephanie

Well done ladies. You can email us at southerngirlschallenges@gmail.com

Now onto top 5.....

#2 Kim Yu

#19 Pinky

#29 Lynda

#40 Lisa

#22 Denise

Congrats ladies, grab yourselves a top 5 badge from the side bar and wear it with pride on your blogs.... tune in tomorrow for another new challenge.

Southern Girls are moving with times....

2011-06-06T19:26:00.002+12:00

We are now on Facebook!!!!
You can find us at....
http://www.facebook.com/louise.gannonforsyth#!/pages/Southern-Girls-Challenge/134567309954054

So be sure to come check us out, say hi and click that LIKE button so you can be kept up to date with what is happening with us here at Southern Girls.

Reminder too about our current challenge which is to make a Christmas project, we can't wait to see what you come up with. Just scroll down to join in the fun and check out our fabulous sponsors.

Challenge#20 - Start of Winter Christmas

2011-06-02T16:46:00.005+12:00

Since yesterday was the unofficial start of Winter in the Lands Down Under we are celebrating with a Christmas Challenge. So get you Christmas papers and embellies out and show us what youv'e got. Remember anything goes here at SGC, be it off the page, scrapbooking, cards, ATCS..... the list is endless, as long as it is paper craft you're in.

And with 3 fantatsic sponsors for this challenge why would you not be........

International Sponsor

The Beary Scrap is the home of the very cute Tear Bears and Friends mulberry animals. They also stock a huge range of scrapbooking and cardmaking products as well. Including Echo Park Papers, Bells & Whistles stamps & Tim Holtz products to name a few.

Come and join us on our website at; www.joannasheen.com or www.joannasheen.co.uk
For postage and packing free worldwide on an exciting array of craft supplies

Laila Ansbergs started Lili of the Valley in 2004 and it has grown since then to be a well respected and much loved company in the UK crafting world. All the initial designs were Laila's and they soon became really popular... at UK Craft Shows, on Crafting TV and of course on www.liliofthevalley.co.uk.

Joined by her friend Lisa Barnes, the business has expanded and Lili of the Valley now works with other artists to bring you a wide range of gorgeous designs, both for stamps and die cut designs. Laila still translates all the images into the black and white stamp designs, but the business of running Lili of the Valley now takes too long for her to design artwork too!

Lili of the Valley Ltd popularity continues to grow as crafters from around the world discover the company's lovely designs.

OUR PHILOSOPHYAt Lili of the Valley, we strive to produce excellent quality products with beautiful designs that enable you to make lovely cards every time, simply and easily. We also pride ourselves on taking care with everything we do to make sure you receive great products, at a good price and as quickly as possible. We hope you agree!

We are proud of the fact that all our products are made in England

DEB

JULIE

KAREN

KIRSTEN

SUE

Winner and top 3

2011-06-01T06:42:00.003+12:00

Well hello again! Another great fortnight with more stunning entries, and slowly we are getting more NZers playing along!! Great News!!!!

So onto this weeks winners...........

Winner of Stitchy Bear - #20 Mazz

Winner of Paper Shelter - #62 Flourgirl

Well done, you can gmailcom">email us here to claim you prizes (talking about prizes.. please check above for unclaimed prizes.... we will be redrawing in two weeks if not claimed.

Onto the top 3 .....

#34 - Amelia

#44 - Elizabeth

#67 - Lynda

Congrats, you can pick up your top 3 badge from the side bar and wear it with pride on your blogs. Check in again for a new challenge and more great sponsors.

Challenge #19 - Frills & Polish

2011-05-19T07:13:00.002+12:00

Wow, what a fabulous amount of entries last challenge, thank you to everyone who entered. We are so happy with how our challenge blog is going and it is all thanks to all you wonderful crafters that play along with us and make us smile with your gorgeous creations.

This challenge is another girly theme, but this time it is about the embellishments, show us the frills of lace and polish of pearls on your lovely creations this week.

Thank you to our fabulous sponsors for this challenge, be sure to pop by their web stores and have a look around at the wonderful images they have to offer.

International Sponsor

The Paper Shelter is a fairly new digital stamp company with gorgeous images. The images come in both line and coloured. If you are looking for fun, cute and lovely digi stamps for your paper-crafting or web design projects, The Paper Shelter is your one-stop boutique!
This growing catalog of high-quality digi stamps with many different kind of options offers a multitude of themes such as everyday items, holidays, special occasions, children, adorable characters and creatures. Stamps are available in standard black and white line art, as well as in pre-colored format.
Images are wonderful for coloring and make perfect additions to greeting cards and scrapbook albums.

New Zealand - Australia Sponsor

Stitchy Bear are our sponsor this challenge for our NZ/ Aus entrants, with several designers images available from the one store, Stitchy Bear is fabulous place to look around and fill your shopping cart.

And now our DT LOVELIES sample cards........

Alicia

Autumn

Bettina

Julie

Kazza

Louise

Marie

Viv

Winners & Top 5 - Lets Hear It For The Girls

2011-05-18T09:28:00.002+12:00

Trace is on leave today so I will do the winners post and hope that I don't get it wrong!!!

So to put you all out of your misery, as I know this is late, here are the winners of the sponsors prizes............

Sassy Studio Designs - #142 - Ashlee Bellinger AUS

Joanna Sheen - #118 - Marlies AUS

Tiddlyinks - #90 Erin Reed

Please email us with your usual email address so we can send it on to the sponsors

and our Top 5 is.........

# 4 - Julie Hill
#139 - Maria
#80 - Ellen
#96 - Donna
#156 - Tracey M
# 42 - Tracey (brossArt addiction)

So it is actually top 6 but I will act dumb as I don't usually do the winners post and pretend I don't know any better ;)

email us for your funky SGC top 5 badge as designed by moi to display with pride on your fabulous blogs!

Don't forget to pop back tomorrow for our new challenge and another 2 wicked sponsors!

LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE GIRLS

2011-05-05T11:19:00.010+12:00

Another fortnight so another challenge and this week we want to see all things girly. Sorry this is late tooo by the way, for those of you that wait with baited breath for the new post to go up on Challenge day. It has been a mad house around here and I seem to be treading water (or time hmmmm) and not getting anything done on time, hence no card from me this week either.

Anyway we have another 3 fabulous sponsors for this challenge so hopefully all you fantastic followers will find the time to make something this week.

Please note we have been pretty relaxed about the guidelines as there was just a couple of hiccups each week but last challenge we had quite a few people put in multiple entries, please note that we only alow one project per person. Thanks.

International Sponsor

Tiddly Inks offers digital stamps and digital papers, created by Christy Croll. Christy is a self-trained illustrator who likes simple, cute and quirky drawings with a sense of humor. She draws what amuses her, which means some days it is quirky and cute and other days it is a bit of twisted gothic feel.

Australia - New Zealand Sponsors
Sassy Studio Designs are definitely just that sassy, if you are a woman who knows what you want and wants what you love, be sure to check out the digital images available from Sassy Studio.

Come and join us on our website at; www.joannasheen.com or www.joannasheen.co.uk
For postage and packing free worldwide on an exciting array of craft supplies.

And now the DT Lovelies samples for this challenge......

Alicia

Deb

Using Tiddly Inks Annie's Heart

Julie

using Tiddly Inks Watcha Doin?

Karen

using Sassy Studios Tinkerbell Honey

Kazza

using Sassy Studios "I am Every Woman - Bubble Bath"

Kirsten

using Tiddly Inks Tree Hugger

Sue

using Sassy Studios Tinkerbell Honey

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY. If you live anywhere else just put your name. The following rules stay the same and we will now be deleting entries that do not follow these simple guidelines as is not fair on the people that do. We are not trying to be mean, just fair.....

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

Blue & Green winners plus top 5

2011-05-04T07:27:00.005+12:00

Another fortnight has flown by and more challenge entries that have left the WOW factor. You ladies in the blogging world are full of talent, I wish we had prizes for you all.....

Anyway.. here are the lucky winners this time

International sponsor - Meljen - Wendy Ramlakhan

NZ / Aussie sponsors - Digital Delight - Francine

- Scrap Box NZ - Elaine

Congrats ladies - email us here for details on your prizes

Now onto the top 5

Well done - you can email us here for your top 5 badge.

Check in tomorrow for our next challenge and fabby new sponsors.

Redraw for Challenge #14 - Use Flowers

2011-04-28T11:46:00.004+12:00

We have redrawn a new winner for The Paper Shelter prize due to no response from the winner. The new winner is

Merry from Merrymadecardcrafts

Merry please contact us on the email link on the sidebar to claim your prize.

It's a Colour Challenge!!!!!!

2011-04-21T08:00:00.002+12:00

This week we have a colour challenge for you here at Southern Girls on your project we would like to see............
GREEN & BLUE
So crack out those green and blue colouring medims, papers and embellies and get creating people because we have another 3 awesome sponsors for this challenge.

International Sponsor

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

New Zealand - Australia Sponsors.....

Digital Delights

Welcome to Digital Delights, a magical place filled with little digi creations from all walks of life. We have a wide range of digital stamps and designer papers which are delivered straight to your email 24/7!
In addition we also have a growing range of "Delightful Piecings" which are paper pieced files designed to be used with your cutting machines or for hand cutting.
Fancy a new blog makeover, header or new watermark, then stop by our sister site Delightful Custom blogs.

Scrap Box NZ are pleased to be a sponsor of the Southern Girls Challenge. We are a family owned web business based in sunny Nelson, central in New Zealand to send out all your scrapbooking products. We stock leading brands and are the home of 99c Bazzill Basic cardstock. We stock over 250 colours across the bazzill range of basics, dotted swiss, bling, glazed and wedding cardstock.

Looking for something different then have a look around the shop and I'm sure you will find something of interest.. Maya Road Trinket Pins, Bakers Twine, Lasercut Chipboard, Glimmermist and Ribbon sold by the metre, are among some of the best selling products, along with a huge selection of papers. If there is something you are after and can't find, get in touch with fiona@scrapboxnz.com and I will see if I can source that product for

And now onto the DT samples.....

Alicia

Autumn

Bettina

Kazza

Marie

Trace

Viv

3 Winners plus 3 top 3!!!!

2011-04-20T04:41:00.003+12:00

What a mouthful the heading is! No mucking around today.. straight into it,,, and what great odds to winning!

So, here we go.... here are the winners

Joanna Sheen - Janet O'Brien

Sassy Cheryl - Mazz

Stamp Fairy - Jovita

Congrats Ladies, you can email us here for your prizes.

Now onto the top 3...

#2 - Bonnie

#5 - Susan's Crafty Chaos

#15 - Francine

Great job ladies, loved seeing what you did with the sketch. Email us here for a top 3 badge.

Don't forget to pop back in tomorrow when Lou will tell you what the new challenge is and who our fabby sponsors are going to be.

Thanks for joining us

Lou, Trace and DT Lovlies

Challenge #16 - Sketch

2011-04-07T08:00:00.008+12:00

This week we have something a little different for us Southern Girls, a sketch for you. You can rotate it, flip it, reverse it and resize it, as long as we can recognize our sketch, which was created by our very own Trace Jackson, then you are good to go! And here is the little beauty for you..... And we have 3 awesome sponsors this week too, please welcome.........

International Sponsor

If you are searching for cute, whimsy digistamps - you have come to the right place! Everything you can find on this site has been hand - and mousemade with love and lots of creativity.

NZ/AUS Sponsor

Sassy Cheryl's offers new, exciting children's illustrations, art and digital stamps that you won't find anywhere else on the web. Whimsical, fun and at times a little sassy. Most images at Sassy Cheryl's are offered both as a digital stamp (line drawing) as well as a colored image. Both the Digital Stamps and Colored images are available for immediate download upon purchase.

NZ/AUS Sponsor

Come and join us on our website at; www.joannasheen.com or http://www.joannasheen.co.uk/ For postage and packing free worldwide on an exciting array of craft supplies.

And now for the DTs samples using Tracy's Sketch............

Deb

Viv

Using Sassy Cheryl's Funky Flower Bunch #1

Bettina

Using Sassy Cheryl's Mother's Day Flower

Sue

Using Sassy Cheryl's Sweet Pea

Julie

Karen

Kazza

Marie

Used Sassy Cheryl's Sassy Grace (a former Freebie)

Lou

Using Sassy Cheryl's Sassy Flower Girl (precoloured)

Lou

Sue

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY. If you live anywhere else just put your name. The following rules stay the same and we will now be deleting entries that do not follow these simple guidelines as is not fair on the people that do. We are not trying to be mean, just fair..... ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG.

Thanks loads for playing along with us....

Lou, Trace & The DT Lovelies

Winners & top 5

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Wow, another amazing amount of entries this fortnight. Thank you for joining us every fortnight, it is great to see some regulars in the mix. Enough gushing.. onto what all of you are waiting for..

Winner of Teddy Bo - #149 - Janet O'Brien

Michelles Scrapbooking and More - #99 Lisa C

Congrats ladies - email us here for your prizes

Now onto the very tough job of picking 5 out of all those wonderful projects

#67 - Angela

#127 - Fussy NZ

#145 - True

#52 - An

#176 - Hannah Clark

Congrats to all you wonderfully creative ladies! You can email us here for your blinkie

Come back again tomorrow morning to join Lou and her lovely ladies in a new challenge and see who our fantastic sponsors are.